Check out a cool shopping site, Hema. Don’t do anything. Just lean back and enjoy. Brilliant! [via]

Here is an insightful deck of slides from Drew Houston, CEO of the online backup company Dropbox. Lots of valuable stuff for other start-ups.

Acronyms like BPO, KPO etc are probably well known. Now enter the world of online translation services outsourcing (TSO). That is precisely myGengo, a Tokyo-based company aims to do. The service currently provides just English-Japanese translation, but more languages will be launched soon. Interesting!
This is how it works.
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TiltShiftMaker is a free, online tool that lets you easily transform your existing digital photos into cool miniature style pictures. Tilt-shift is a photographic technique that is used to create special effects when taking a photo. Find out more about tilt-shift read the Wikipedia article.
Do checkout some tilt-shift pics here.

Users hoping to learn something new—whether it’s French or trigonometry—begin by signing up for free with Popling and installing its Mac or Windows desktop software on their computer. They then subscribe to specific “poplings,” or topics they want to learn. There are more than 150 poplings currently available, including 11 languages and topics in math, [...]

Now you can learn to play guitar online with the innovative 3D Guitar Learning System called iPerform3D. iPerform3D uses the patented MoCap360TM system, this interactive system goes way beyond video and allows you control every aspect of the lesson such as speed, camera viewing angle, camera distance etc. MoCap360 employs the same technology used to [...]

Google Apps is a Software as a Service (SaaS) based package of business applications including mail, calendar, team site creation, document collaboration, and video sharing. Now with the Google apps reseller program, Google is providing business opportunities for companies to sell their own versions of Google Apps. The program creates a new way for technology [...]

Userfly helps you to run instant usability studies for your website using your real users. You can get it up and running easily with one line of javascript, and immediately watch movies of your users’ browsing sessions to analyze their behavior.
Though i have doubts about user privacy, this is definitely a very useful application.
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Pledgehammer gives people a way to make their resolutions public, whether it’s stopping smoking, losing weight. When they make their pledge, users are asked to choose a deadline—say, by a year from today—as well as some amount of money to give to charity should they fail to keep their promise. Members of the site can [...]